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News

July 2025: We received an ITHS Early Stage Product Development Award for our collaborative work on the CandyCollect Open to Closed (O2C) Microfluidic system for Rapid and User-Centric Detection of Group A Streptococcus with Dr. Ashleigh Theberge and Dr. Erwin Berthier.
June 2025: Dr. Megan Chang has accepted a new position at Roche Diagnostics! We wish you all the best in this exciting new step as in your translational research career, Megan.
June 2025: We celebrate our graduates: Annie Qiu, Caitlyn Kwong, Diya Rekhi, George Tang, Justus Brown, Mark Fernandez, Sarina Barnes, Zoe Blumenkranz. We are so grateful for all the dedication and joy you brought to your time with us. We are so excited to see what you will do next.
June 2025: Makalya Schmidt completed her rotation and joined our lab as a PhD student expanding our portfolio of enzyme activity assays for disease and treatment monitoring into prostate cancer screening and tuberculosis therapeutic drug monitoring. Welcome Makayla!
May 2025: Cosette Craig passed her PhD general exam. Congratulations Cosette!
May 2025: Senior undergraduates Zoe Blumenkranz and Mark Fernandez presented their project Optimizing Surface Properties and Gepmetries for Capillary Microfluidic Devices Produced on LCD 3D Printers at the annual UW Undergraduate Research Symposium.

April 2025: Maya Singh passed her PhD qualifying exam. Congratulations Maya!
April 2025: Our manuscript, Fabrication of Low-Cost, High-Resolution Open Capillary Microfluidics towards Self-Sustaining, Long-Term Hydration of Engineered Living Materials, was published in Progress in Additive Manufacturing.

April 2025: Willow Chernoske completed their rotation and joined our lab as a PhD student advancing our portfolio of enzyme activity assays for therapeutic drug monitoring. Welcome Willow!
April 2025: Makalya Schmidt joined our lab as a PhD rotation student. Welcome Makayla!
February 2025: Aileen Sun ****passed her PhD qualifying exam. Congratulations Aileen!
February 2025: Our manuscript, Rapid enzymatic assay for antiretroviral drug monitoring using CRISPR-Cas12a enabled readout, was published in the Diagnostics special issue of ACS Synthetic Biology.